Wk+3-4+(Sept.+3-13)

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=__**Sept. 3 - Welcome back!**__=

Finish food description and "share" it on your Chromebooks (halgeali1@gmail.com OR halgeali2@gmail.com
=Sept. 4 - Wed.=

Journal Notes: Which words best describe each of these hands? Focus on using specific details.

 * 1) 1 [[image:mrshscreativewriters/0018-0411-0608-4409_three_generations_hands_womens_hands_photo.jpg]]
 * 2) 2[[image:mrshscreativewriters/dirty_hand.jpg width="288" height="202"]]
 * 3) 3[[image:mrshscreativewriters/grandparent_child_hands.jpg width="256" height="293"]]#4[[image:mrshscreativewriters/hands_2.jpg]]#5[[image:mrshscreativewriters/hands_6.jpg]]



**Sept. 6 - Friday**
==**‍Draw your hand (outline) and describe several features that would help someone visualize your hand** **OR write a descriptive paragraph including several sentences to describe your hand. Remember you are trying to include specific details about your hand. Take time to pick strong details for your hand** **description.** See student sample page: hand assignment.==

Monday - Work time (first 15-20 minutes). Turn in hand description today.
==Begin chain stories: Write the following opening on a piece of paper.. For this activity, you will add one sentence and then pass your page per instructions. The next student will add another sentence, etc. Tuesday - Finish chain stories, followed by a reading time.==

=Writing prompt for chain stories:= =What could I possibly do now to get out of this mess? Exhaling, I leaped.=

Words to know:
==__Connotation__ - the associated or secondary meaning of a word or expression in addition to its explicit or primary meaning. (Home = a place of warmth, comfort and affection OR Home = a place to do battle.)==

‍Complete the small group exercise in considering the meanings of words (connotation/denotation).

 * [|Details][[file:mrshscreativewriters/connotation chart.pdf|Download]]
 * [[file:mrshscreativewriters/24_adjectives.pdf|24_adjectives.pdf]]
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Options for this writing include:

 * ===[|Personal essay]===
 * ===[|Memoir]===
 * ===[|Feature article] (might appear in the school newspaper or yearbook)===
 * ===College application essay - [|College Application Essay (great site)]===

Guidelines:

 * ===1 1/2 - 2 pages in length, double-spaced, header with your name/course/date===
 * ===Submit final edited draft by ___===
 * ===Written in first or third person===
 * ===Fully edited with a focus on word choice and language===
 * ===Based on actual events and/or personal experiences/feelings. After all, this is nonfiction.===
 * ===Can be informal and personal, something you may not have done in previous writing assignments.===

Some links that might provide inspiration:

[|Write on Edge]

__Ideas for writing:__ From “It Sounds Like Me”: Using Creative Nonfiction to Teach College Admissions Essays, Jennifer Wells English Journal Sept. 2008 ** 1. ** List your three favorite foods (be specific— not just cereal, but “Cap’n Crunch before it gets soggy”). Pick one and explain. Show who you are through your explanation. ** 2. ** List your top five favorite places. They can be exotic or local—Tahiti or your favorite coffee shop. Pick one and explain. Show who you are through your explanation. ** 3. ** List your top three favorite high school memories (things that happened during high school years). Pick one and explain. Show who you are through your explanation. ** 4. ** List five things you have accomplished in your life that you are really proud of. Pick one and explain. Show who you are through your explanation. ** 5. ** Look in your backpack. List and briefly describe some of the things that are in there. Imagine this wasn’t your backpack, but the backpack of an alien. What would you deduce about the alien based on what is in the backpack? ** 6. ** When was the last time you laughed so hard something came out of your nose? Tell the story of what happened. ** 7. ** Draw yourself talking to your admissions office representatives. In a cartoon bubble above the “you” character, write all the things you want them to know about you. Above their heads, write either what you are afraid of them saying or what you want them to say. Now turn it into an essay for college admissions or scholarship. [|College appliation or scholarship essay CW] - click here for page about college essays [|CW IW idea list about student 2010.doc] This is the link for the list of ideas you can use for independent writes. Modify one to turn it in to a creative nonfiction piece.

Write about a moment when...

 * ===you realized you had misunderstood someone else’s motives about something. ===
 * ===you started to dislike a person you’d liked before. ===
 * ===you started to like a person you’d disliked before. ===
 * ===you realized someone you love was getting older and might die soon. ===
 * ===you realized that something important to you was going to change whether you wanted it to or not. ===
 * ===you were very frightened of something. ===
 * ===you observed an incident involving a stranger than made you realize something you hadn’t considered before. ===
 * ===something you wanted very badly turned out to be a disappointment ===
 * ===you finally understood a concept that you’d been struggling with. ===
 * ===you were disappointed in yourself or someone close to you. ===
 * ===being in a particular place made you view something from a new perspective. ===
 * ===you witnessed an event that changed your perception of something or someone. ===
 * ===an everyday occurrence took on new meaning. ===
 * ===something become important to you that didn’t matter to you a few years ago. ===

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It should be a moment of clarity – not something that evolved over a long period of time.
===<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The moment should lead to some kind of realization – it made you think of something in a new way, led you to consider something from a new point of view, or forced you to think about something you hadn’t realized or considered previously. ===

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